“ I am unworthy— how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth.

“我是卑贱的！我用什么回答你呢？只好用手捂口。

“看哪，我是卑贱的！我用什么回答你呢？我只好用手捂住我的口。

“看哪，我是卑贱的！我用什么回答你呢？我只好用手捂住我的口。

“我这样卑微，怎能答复你？我只有用手掩口。

“我是微小的，可以回答你什么呢？我只好用手掩口。

我是卑賤的！我用甚麼回答你呢？只好用手摀口。

「看哪，我是卑賤的！我用甚麼回答你呢？我只好用手摀住我的口。

「看哪，我是卑賤的！我用甚麼回答你呢？我只好用手摀住我的口。

「我這樣卑微，怎能答覆你？我只有用手掩口。

“我是微小的，可以回答你甚麼呢？我只好用手掩口。

『啊，我輕微，能答覆你甚麼？我只好用手摀口罷了。

我乃微賤、何以答爾、惟以手掩口耳、

渺我微軀、弗能應對、無以措辭、

我甚輕賤、何以答主、惟以手掩口、

“ I’m not worthy. How can I reply to you? I’m putting my hand over my mouth. I’ll stop talking.

“ Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

“ I am nothing— how could I ever find the answers? I will cover my mouth with my hand.

I am so insignificant. How can I answer you? I place my hand over my mouth.

“ Behold, I am insignificant; what can I say in response to You? I put my hand on my mouth.

“ Behold, I am vile; What shall I answer You? I lay my hand over my mouth.

Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

I am so insignificant. How can I answer You? I place my hand over my mouth.

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

“ Indeed, I am completely unworthy– how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.

“ Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

the chief men refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands;

Look at me and be appalled; clap your hand over your mouth.

“ If you play the fool and exalt yourself, or if you plan evil, clap your hand over your mouth!

Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

“ Woe to me!” I cried.“ I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

Then Abraham spoke up again:“ Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,

They answered him,“ Be quiet! Don’t say a word. Come with us, and be our father and priest. Isn’t it better that you serve a tribe and clan in Israel as priest rather than just one man’s household?”

and prayed:“ I am too ashamed and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.

I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

I would state my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.I would find out what he would answer me, and consider what he would say to me.Would he vigorously oppose me? No, he would not press charges against me.There the upright can establish their innocence before him, and there I would be delivered forever from my judge.

“ But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said,‘ God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

The Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said,“ Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!”

Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their power. They will put their hands over their mouths and their ears will become deaf.

on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend.

I would give him an account of my every step; I would present it to him as to a ruler.)—

Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners— of whom I am the worst.

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die.“ I have had enough, Lord,” he said.“ Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”

we have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws.

I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’

Lord, the God of Israel, you are righteous! We are left this day as a remnant. Here we are before you in our guilt, though because of it not one of us can stand in your presence.”

you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.“ He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court.If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together,someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more.Then I would speak up without fear of him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.

I was silent; I would not open my mouth, for you are the one who has done this.

We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

“ Lord, you are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame— the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered us because of our unfaithfulness to you.

Be still before the Lord, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.”

In all that has happened to us, you have remained righteous; you have acted faithfully, while we acted wickedly.

David was conscience- stricken after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to the Lord,“ I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, Lord, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.”